Educating Rigveda (and other stories) Kenya and Nigeria are two of the crucibles of Africa’s tech revolution: yet the news from each of them this week presents a stark contrast. As do the findings of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills – good news for ... Read More October 9, 2013 News
Malta’s wiki projects falter: and other stories Around the World is your first port of call for international e-learning news. With a mix of stories from across the globe, we aim to reflect the diversity and ingenuity of online education. This week, universi... Read More September 19, 2013 News
The underlying inequality of MOOCs August 22, 2013 News Anybody who has been paying any small amount of attention to educational headlines in the past few years will be well rehearsed in the proposed benefits of MOOCs. A cursory online search will provide you with endless news articles, blog posts, TED talks and ac... Read More
The Workplace of the Future Jeanne Meister is leader of the 2020 Workplace Network and author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today (Harper Collins), which won the 2011 Bellwe... Read More July 26, 2013 News
OERs and MOOCs: Old Wine in New Skins? Neil Butcher is Director at Neil Butcher and Associates and OER Strategist at OER Africa, an Initiative of the Southern African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). As an expert in OERs, and believer in th... Read More June 26, 2013 News
The shaky future of higher education December 18, 2012 News In the opening session of ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2012 keynote speaker Sir Michael Barber argued an avalanche was coming to disrupt the future of higher education. He spoke about the falling value of a bachelor degree in today’s economy and the onslaught of knowle... Read More
How “progress” can inhibit learning Exciting and innovative learning technologies are produced every day, each with the capability to enhance the ease with which education can be administered and accessed. But are we really paying attention to th... Read More November 22, 2012 News
Tweets of the Week- 12th-16th Nov This week, our links will focus on differing concerns people have that are related to the technological progress that is happening in global education. Some are concerned about how it will affect and detrac... Read More November 19, 2012 News
Tweets of the Week 29th October – 2nd November November 2, 2012 News This week, all of our links are focused on online learning. Firstly, a couple of links from the BBC reporting on some of the potential pitfalls of online learning, and how to deal with them: - US universities putting their repu... Read More
The Rise of the MOOC: The Future of Higher Education? Higher education is a sector that has thus far embraced – but arguably has not been fundamentally altered by – the growth of the Internet. This has been rapidly changing over the last few years with the rise of... Read More November 1, 2012 News
